Paddle-wheels



nitzd j gisten @met @frn www WILLIAM R. MANLEY, or NEW YORK, N. Y., AssicNonTovnI-MSELF AND WILLIAM H.V WEBB, OF SAME PLACE..

Leners Patent No. 87,860, dated March 16, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN FEATHERING PADMWEZEELS.

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Myinvention consists in constructing the stock of the pillow-block with arms, which may overlap adjaf cent portions of the frame-work of the wheel, and be firmly secured thereto by bolts or rivets.

The accompan l'ng drawing represents the mode in which I have applied my invention- Figure 1 representing a side view of a portion of `'the frame of a feathering paddle-wheel, with my improvementapplied to it; and

Figure 2 representing an edge view of the same, with certain portions in section.

In this example, the stock A of the pillow-block is constructed with arms b b, which are branchedA at their ends, as at c c, the branches being concentric with the axis of the paddle-wheel.

The stock, thus constructed, is formed into the frame of the paddle-wheel, and the branches c c, of the arms,

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Voverlap the ring-pieces D DIof the frame, and are firmly secured thereto by through-bolts.

The spaces between the stocks of adjacent pillow# blocks of the wheel are filled in by the projections e of the wheel-arms F,.which have the forms of segments of the rings, so that the bolts of all the pillowblocks unite in sustaining strains which tend to move any one pillow-block upon the wheel-frame.

The cap G of the pillow-block is secured to the stock by cap-bolts h h, and the pillow-block is bored out, and lined with staves of wood, m, to form abearing, or box for therock-shaft, or gudgeon of the paddle.

The pillow-block, with a stock constructed land applied, as above described, forms in substance a part of the frame of the paddle-wheel; and therefore is firmly secured in its place. Moreover, as the arms of the pillow-block stock are of no very great size, the article can 'be readily forged and swaged in dies to the required form.

-What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The pillow-block stock, constructed with arms, substantially as before described.

In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand, this 22d day of September, VA. D. 1868.

WM. R. MANLEY. W. L. BENNEM, J onn RATHBONE, Jr. 

